Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Stranger in the Library
by Eva Gates
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When a traveling show of impressionist art comes to Nags Head, North Carolina, librarian Lucy and the staff at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library are inspired to create an educational display about art history. Their launch of the display is a huge success, but the morning after, they discover that a reproduction of a famous painting has gone missing.
No one knows why anyone would bother stealing it: the picture is of no value–the real, priceless painting is under lock and key at the art show itself. Lucy gets an invite to the glitzy opening night for the real show, where she notices unusual tension among the show’s organizers. Then, the man scheduled to give the welcoming speech fails to arrive, and a party-goer is discovered drowned in a fish pond.
Raised by Wolves
by James Patterson, Emily Raymond
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The police are called to stop two teens ransacking a small-town grocery store. They have no identification. And they won’t speak a word. And the small town of Kokanee Creek is suddenly plunged into a sinister mystery that only #1 bestseller James Patterson could have written.
Two teens appear out of nowhere, ransacking a small-town grocery and attacking the police officers who come to investigate. Their clothes are torn and filthy, their hands and bare feet callused, they have fangs. They’re sister and brother, alone against the world. Where did they come from? Raised by wolves, they say.
Edge of Dark Water
by Joe R. Lansdale
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
May Lynn is a pretty girl who dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. Until her dead body is dredged up from the Sabine River.
Sue Ellen, May Lynn’s strong-willed teenage friend; her pals Terry and Jinx; and Sue Ellen’s mother set out to dig up May Lynn’s body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood. If May Lynn can’t become a star, at least her remains can be spread in the land of her dreams.
Shepherds
by J. Drew Brumbaugh
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Olga is a genetically altered “shepherd” born to live at sea herding factory tuna. She lives with her two shipmates aboard a submersible raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Toivo is an independent fisherman who, along with two dolphins, struggles to make a living catching what few wild tuna are left. The two of them should never have met. But, someone is killing shepherds and fate pushes Olga and Toivo to join forces just to stay alive. Together they must outwit heavily armed drug smugglers bent on killing anyone who gets in their way. The nonstop action hurtles toward a startling conclusion that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Theory of Death
by Faye Kellerman
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Now living in upstate New York, former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is plunged into a bizarre web involving academia, underworld crime, and calculating killers in this compulsive novel in New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman’s beloved Decker and Lazarus series.
Former LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker is relishing the quiet and slow pace of his new job with the Greenbury police department. The work is low stress and engaging, and it’s been almost a year since the last murder in this sleepy upstate New York town…
Once Upon A Dragon Wish
by Adrienne Woods
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The only thing Elena Watkins wants is a normal life. One where she doesn’t have to move every three months or be the new student at school. She will love a friend or two as well.
But when the weird, complex, hotness on legs, Blake Leaf, enrolled a few weeks later at Falmouth High, Elena struggles to keep the walls she builds around herself from falling. The guy seems to only have eyes for her, and she doesn’t know why. Until the truth reveals that he and his father are there to take her home, to a land of magic, fairytales and dragons.
The 24th Hour
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco’s finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married.
Before they can raise their glasses, there’s a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal strategy is complicated by gaps in the plaintiff’s memory—and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing testimony.
Don’t Tell
by Mary Stone, Matt Giegerich
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
I don’t trust anyone. Not after my dad abandoned me. Not after the toxic affair with my high school teacher. Not after the attack that nearly killed me. And definitely not after the lies I’ve told—to myself and others.
For twelve years, I’ve buried my secrets, trying to live the perfect suburban life. I’m married to a wonderful man, and I have a rewarding career at Camp Wildfire—a sanctuary for troubled teens nestled on the edge of a sprawling forest. Life looks good on the surface, but one crack and it could all fall apart.
Turns out, that crack has a name. Amanda.
The Stranger in Her House
by John Marrs
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A stranger has infiltrated your family…and now he’s taking over.
Paul’s just here to help, or so he claims—sent by a charity for vulnerable people to do odd jobs for elderly widow Gwen. But for Gwen’s daughter Connie, there’s just something about Paul that rings alarm bells from day one. He’s a little too kind, a little too involved…Worse still, Gwen seems to have fallen under his spell.
The last thing Connie wants is a stranger meddling in the safe routine she’s built around Gwen. She loves being the one Gwen turns to for cooking, cleaning and company…
The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Reminiscent of a classic whodunit, this “pulse-quickening” (Oprah Daily) instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller follows a journalist searching for a missing woman on a cruise ship—a woman that everyone else insists doesn’t exist.
Travel magazine writer Lo Blacklock has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: one week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the elite guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea.